Slater insisted on getting bus despite Qassim’s warnings, inquest hearspublished at 14:24 British Summer Time

14:24 BST

Ayub Qassim says as he was moving his vehicle, he saw Slater talking to Ofelia Hernandez, the Airbnb owner.

When Qassim exited the car, Slater came towards him and said he was leaving and going to “catch a bus” to go back to his apartment, Qassim says.

Qassim told Slater there were no buses, he explains to the inquest. Slater said that Hernandez told him a bus would be there soon, but Qassim continued to warn him against it.

Qassim told Slater to wait and he would drive him back later, but Slater said his friends are waiting for him.

Qassim went back to sleep, presuming Slater was waiting at the bus stop.

The coroner asks if there was any altercation between them. “No,” Qassim says.

Lois Norris, the family’s lawyer, takes over, and her questions for Qassim are focussing on a phone call Slater made earlier in the night at 04:45 local time.

She asks if it was Qassim he rang.

He say’s he cannot remember, but he is “leaning” towards it being him that Slater called.